Here’s a good way to avoid wasting water when you dry your dishes. The Dish Drainer Project puts a dish rack on your potted plants to give them the run-off watering they deserve. Dish Drainer Project – Link, [via]
Catchy headline for Halloween, but a real problem… – A force as insidious as Dracula is quietly sucking a nickel of every dollar’s worth of the electricity that seeps from your home’s outlets. Electronic gadgets running in standby mode use 5 percent of electricity in the United States. Insert the little fangs of your cell […]
Inhabitat has a great write on artist Edina Tokodi’s “green graffiti” Abigail writes – Eco-minded street artist Edina Tokodi is putting a new spin on green guerilla tactics in the trendy art enclave of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Tokodi’s site-specific moss installations of prancing animal figures and camouflage outgrowths are the talk of a local urban neighborhood […]
Ansley at Bleu Arts points to this amazing article on Greetje van Tiem’s graduation project on turning old newspapers into yarn on De Zeen Design Magazine. The results are beautiful and the yarn can be woven into carpets, curtains, and even furniture upholstery. [ via ] Link.
Clever, here’s a video of non-turbine wind power generators from Shawn Frayne… Link & more.
From AfriGadget comes this item about a solar-powered donkey-drawn farm utility vehicle with 21st century extras: The HAPV (Advertised as HAPPY) is a twist on the ‘horse and buggy’ mode of transportation, making this a donkey, cart, solar panel on a canopy FUV (Farm Utility Vehicle) that is quite ingenious and absolutely AfriGadget. A donkey […]
Researchers at Michigan Technological University, Arizona State University and NanoSonic Inc. are working on harvesting the ambient energy of walking and carrying a backpack with polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), a nylon-like material with piezoelectric properties. This would be great for multi-day hiking, since you wouldn’t have carry heavy batteries to keep your GPS or cellphone juiced! […]
